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Devant, Maria
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Marti, Sonia
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Producció Animal
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Producció de Remugants
2025-10-22T11:02:06Z
2025-10-22T11:02:06Z
2020-10-18
Devant, Maria, and Sonia Marti. 2020. "Strategies For Feeding Unweaned Dairy Beef Cattle To Improve Their Health". Animals 10 (10): 1908. doi:10.3390/ani10101908.
2076-2615
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12327/970
https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10101908
In order to answer the question of whether nutritional interventions may help to reduce
the incidence of respiratory disease in dairy beef calves at arrival, the present review is divided in
three sections. In the first section, the nutrition of calves previous to the arrival from the origin
farm to the final rearing farm is reviewed. In the second section, the possible consequences of this
previous nutrition on gut health and immune status upon arrival to the rearing farm are described.
The main consequences of previous nutrition and management that these unweaned calves suffer at
arrival are the negative energy balance, the increased intestinal permeability, the oxidative stress,
the anemia, and the recovery feed consumption. Finally, in the third section, some considerations
to advance in future nutritional strategies are suggested, which are focused on the prevention of
the negative consequences of previous nutrition and the recovery of the gut and immune status.
Moreover, additional suggestions are formulated that will be also helpful to reduce the incidence of
bovine respiratory disease (BRD) that are not directly linked to nutrition like having a control golden
standard in the studies or designing risk categories in order to classify calves as suitable or not to
be transported.
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Strategies for Feeding Unweaned Dairy Beef Cattle to Improve Their Health
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